the Reaumur scale

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• Réaumur scale — This article is about the temperature scale. For other uses, see Réaumur (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Rømer scale. Old thermometer in a pharmacy in Vienna showing average room temperature in Réaumur The Réaumur scale (°Ré, °Re, °R),… …   Wikipedia

• reaumur scale — n. temperature scale with the freezing point of water at 0 degrees and the boiling point at 80 degrees (named after its inventor, Rene Reaumur) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Réaumur temperature scale —       scale established in 1730 by the French naturalist René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (Réaumur, René Antoine Ferchault de) (1683–1757), with its zero set at the freezing point of water and its 80° mark at the boiling point of water at normal …   Universalium

• Reaumur — adj. relating to the Reaumur scale; using the Reaumur scale, measured on the Reaumur scale n. family name; Rene Reaumur (1683 1757), French scientist, inventor of the Reaumur temperature scale; temperature scale with the freezing point of water… …   English contemporary dictionary

• Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de — born Feb. 28, 1683, La Rochelle, France died Oct. 17, 1757, Saint Julien du Terroux French physicist and entomologist. He invented the thermometric scale that bears his name (see thermometry); on the Réaumur scale, 0° marks the freezing point of… …   Universalium

• Réaumur, RenéAntoine Ferchault de — Ré·au·mur (rā ə myo͝orʹ, ō , rā ō mürʹ), René Antoine Ferchault de. 1683 1757. French physicist who invented the alcohol thermometer and devised the Réaumur scale. * * * …   Universalium

• Réaumur — René A.F. de, French physicist, 1683–1757. See R. scale. * * * Re·au·mur .rā ō myu̇(ə)r adj relating or conforming to a thermometric scale on which the boiling point of water is at 80° above the zero of the scale and the freezing point is at zero …   Medical dictionary

• scale — 1. A standardized test for measuring psychological, personality, or behavioral characteristics. SEE ALSO: score, test. 2. SYN: squama. 3. A small thin plate of horny epithelium, resembling a fish s., cast off from the skin …   Medical dictionary

• Réaumur , René Antoine Ferchault de — (1683–1757) French entomologist, physicist, and metallurgist Born at La Rochelle in western France, Réaumur traveled to Paris in 1703 and was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences in 1708. He was commissioned by Louis XIV (1710) to compile a …   Scientists

• Réaumur — /ray euh myoor /; Fr. /rdday oh myuurdd /, n. 1. René Antoine Ferchault de /rddeuh nay ahonn twannn ferdd shoh deuh/, 1683 1757, French physicist and inventor. adj. 2. Also, Reaumur. noting or pertaining to a temperature scale (Réaumur scale) in… …   Universalium

• Réaumur, René-Antoine Ferchault de — (1683 1757)    physicist, naturalist    Considered the father of the French iron and steel industry, René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur was born in La Rochelle. He demonstrated that castings can be made into steel by adding metallic iron, and he… …   France. A reference guide from Renaissance to the Present